Well, using the Icewm from the package manager won't give any icons in the menu. The package manager Icewm also hasn't been set up with a shut down menu, newbies didn't seem to like having to ctrl-alt-backspace when they wanted to power down. Those were the glaring problems, I can't remember if there were others, haven't used it in a while.

Ah ok. I did add the shutdown menu items, and icons work great with this version Icewm. The old versions of IceWM use Imlib for icon rendering, but the dev versions use GDK, and I think it looks much nicer.

I am using it on Puppy 4.31 retro k-2.6.25.16 installed on my mini-pc. The absvolume appears in the tray. I edited the preferences file to display net and cpu status. All seems to be working quite well.

I also used the preference override from MU's old IceWM pet to make my fonts larger. I just had to change the size of the small icons in prefoverride to 20 so it doesn't make my taskbar expand so much.